JULY 8, 2010
As some of you know, I also have a passion for search engines and how they work. I spend a nice bulk of my mornings, typically 7am to 9am, every day writing content around search engines, SEO, PPC and so on...
As some of you know, I also have a passion for search engines and how they work. I spend a nice bulk of my mornings, typically 7am to 9am, every day writing content around search engines, SEO, PPC and so on...
On Friday, I gave a little app update where I used JUMBO sized iPhone app icons. When I posted them, some people asked me how did I get such large app icons. So I figured I'd write a post on how to do so.
Here is an example of a huge app icon, this is 512 by 512 pixels...
I wanted to give you all a brief update on some of the recent updates that our apps have undergone. As many of you know, Apple released a major operating system update to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform named iOS4. This update allows some cool features and also broke some existing features in our apps...
Since we all now have the iPhone 4 in our hands, we wanted to introduce some iPhone 4 specific features into the App Store.
We are releasing a Tefillin Mirror for the Siddur and also as a free standalone app for the iPhone 4...
First, I have to admit, I'm not much of a mobile app user -- so this app was recommended by a friend. But I'm glad I tried it because it is right up my alley...
We are all loving our iPhone 4's so far, but we are experiencing minor issues here and there. For example, Matt and I were having a strange issue on our new phones...
Well, the new iPhone has offically launched with today's store release. Naturally, RustyBrick was on hand to get our brand new iPhones. However, at least 2 of us here at the office have had a serious issue when upgrading our old 3G phones to the new iPhone...
This morning, several of us at RustyBrick arrived at the Apple Store at Tices Corner to pick up our pre-ordered iPhone 4 devices. I arrived at 2am, whereas most of us arrived at 4am and Matt is still waiting on the line...
I am sitting here at Apple Store at Tice's Corner with many of the RustyBrickers, with my iPhone confirmation pickup email...
As you know, many of us here pre-ordered the iPhone 4 and many of us are picking them up in a store.
So it turns out, most people who pre-ordered and picked the FedEx delivery are now getting them today...
As one of the only Blackberry users here at RustyBrick I am proud to say my phone is superior when it comes to making and receiving phone calls. It also handles emails very well...
For the first time in our two years of submitting apps to Apple, Apple has approved two of our Apps in just about 24 hours from us submitting them. Typically, Apple takes about 5 to 7 days for Apple to approve or reject an app...
First, let me warn anyone using our Jewish iPhone Apps specifically the ones that use Zmanim classes such as the iPhone Siddur or Shabbat Shalom App or Mikvah App that the times may be wrong. We are working on an immediate fix and hope Apple approves it ASAP...
Today we launched a new site, TigerChef.com, a restaurant equipment supplier. Normally launch days can be very stressful. Making sure you tied up all the lose ends, uploading the site, migrating everything from their old hosting to our servers, etc. Today however we were helped out by our clients...
I just read from Apple that they pre-sold over 600,000 iPhone 4 phones in a single day. Well, actually in less than a single day.
iPhone 4 pre-ordering was first enabled about 4am (EST) yesterday. Throughout the day, most people were unable to order due to server issues at AT&T...
When the app store for the iPhone/iPod Touch came out, the marketplace was flooded with to do lists and other similar apps. Then people started finding 'creative' uses for the special hardware and processing power of the iPhone. One of the earliest examples is Agile Partner's Guitar Toolkit...
When Google did their Pacman Doodle, it was estimated that 4.82 million hours of lost productivity was realized worldwide, costing millions of dollars in lost time. Today, with the new iPhone 4 being available for pre-order today, there is a tremendous amount of time being lost...
Today we got our shipment of personalized chrome license plate frames for the RustyBrick team. We got two variations:
(1) Top: Coder Insider & Bottom: www.rustybrick.com
(2) Top: PHP FTW & Bottom: www.rustybrick...
We, RustyBrick, teamed up with Davka Corporation to release the Mishneh Torah for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, featuring the complete Hebrew text of the classic code of Jewish law authored by Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), one of the foremost rabbis and Jewish philosophers of the Middle...
This year we held the RustyBrick annual BBQ on the Sunday prior to Memorial Day. When I say "annual," I am not telling the complete truth. The first time we held a company BBQ was in 2008, you can see pictures here...